How To Install thinkfan on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install thinkfan on Fedora 34.
What is thinkfan
A simple fan control program. Works with any Linux hwmon driver, especially with thinkpad_acpi. It is designed to eat as little CPU power as possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install thinkfan on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install thinkfan.
Install thinkfan on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install thinkfan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install thinkfan
Install thinkfan on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install thinkfan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install thinkfan
How To Uninstall thinkfan on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the thinkfan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove thinkfan
thinkfan Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/modprobe.d/thinkfan.conf
/etc/sysconfig/thinkfan
/etc/thinkfan.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/9fe78a6924f8c82022d7eab724ba0b92544ae3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-sleep.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-wakeup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan.service
/usr/sbin/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/thinkfan.yaml
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/thinkfan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/thinkfan.conf.5.gz
/etc/modprobe.d/thinkfan.conf
/etc/sysconfig/thinkfan
/etc/thinkfan.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/1749e523d8ca1f36be59ea2ec158309a23cb3c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-sleep.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan-wakeup.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/thinkfan.service
/usr/sbin/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/README.md
/usr/share/doc/thinkfan/thinkfan.yaml
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan
/usr/share/licenses/thinkfan/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/thinkfan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/thinkfan.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install thinkfan on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.